In a nutshell, the way a Clickbank transaction works is like this….

You have your sales page (this is like your shop window) where people from the Internet turn up at your site to view your product. You will need to have a fabulous sales pitch to entice the buyer.. you can do through doing a variety of psychological tactics… create an urgency (i.e. sell a limited number of copies, inform the buyer that the price is going to go up etc), people like to buy if other people are buying (do this by getting testimonials from other buyers, if you are selling loads inform that you are selling x copies every minute etc.. people don’t like to be left behind, if other people are buying, they want to get in on it) – this art of creating a good pitch is called Copywriting. It takes time to be able to get good at this, however, there are tools which can automatically generate this for you like B.U.R.P.I.E.S. Salesletter Formula

Your webpage also has a link to buy the product you’re selling. The buyer is redirected to the Clickbank payment page. The user puts in their payment and if successful, they will be redirected to your ‘Thank You’ page. Your thank you page is called this as you would put in a message such as ‘thank you for your purchase’ and then have a link to your electronic product which the user will click on to download. The problem with the thank you page is that unless you know how to protect it adequately, people can link directly to your thank you page by sending to their friends or posting in on a website. Even worse, if it appears on a search engine such as Google, people will be able to download your product for free.

There are two things you need to do here to protect your electronic from being stolen. The first, which is every easy to implement, is to put in ‘no follow’ and ‘no link’ tag to your thank you page. This will stop the search engines from indexing and your page appearing on search engines.

The other thing to do is to protect your thank you page so that it can only be accessed when someone has actually purchased your product. Therefore, even if they send the link to your thank you page around, when they arrive to download your product, if they haven’t paid, then there is no page to be seen.

Unless you have some programming experience, I would recommend the product called DL Guard. This costs $127 but at least your product is secured from hackers and other unsavouries looking to get hold of your product for free. You can visit DL Guards website by clicking here.

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Following my cheques (that’s how they’re spelt in the UK!), I’ve had a few people mail me to ask me what Clickbank is and how does it work. Well, for the likes of you and me, Clickbank is a seller of digital delivered products and has two modes of operation. I’ll take each in turn.

Firstly, for those people who want to sell something electronically (ie software, eBook etc), Clickbank allows you to sell your product through them. This also means for the customer purchasing your book, the reputation that Clickbank has means that they are not likely going to be duped by a rogue entrepreneur! Clickbank are very well known digital products seller and they have quite stringent criteria before a product can be released through them. This means that the buyer has confidence that after payment, they will get their product. In addition, as a seller on Clickbank, you have to follow Clickbank’s rules of providing a 60 day guarantee should the customer not like your product.

The other  function of Clickbank is that they allow you to sell other peoples products and take a commission per sale. This means that you do not even have to have your own product.  For example, if had created a product in Clickbank (as per previous paragraph), you can also set a commission rate so that anyone who promotes and sells your product can make a profit. This of course means you make less profit but at least you can get increased sales. If you want to advertise through Google, this is also expensive so buy providing a commission rate to pay those who help you sell your product, you can earn money with no further investment.

My recent Clickbank activity has revolved around the second function. I do not (yet!) have a product to sell so I am selling someone else’s product and they are paying me 50% of the retail price for each one I can sell through me.

So how does Clickbank know the sale is referred through me? Well, what you have is your ID in the link of each product that you are promoting. Clickbank can trace each order to see where it came from.. if it came from you then you can get your commission. Of course, there’s always the question of how do you know if any sales were made through you and you didn’t receive your commission? Well, you don’t.. this is the value of the Clickbank name.. they are a well known digital products reseller and any bad publicity would soon ruin their reputation. It is simply not in their interest to do this to the promoter.. they act as the middleman, as escrow. If you were promoting a product directly through to the author of a product, then there would be no way to know if they were cheating you… at least with Clickbank, they are a trusted body on the Internet who can oversee these transactions.

In a nutshell, this is what Clickbank does… I’ll write a little bit more about each of the functions of Clickbank in due course to give you a clearer pictures.

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My blog is all about making money and although the majority of the posts have been to do with trading the financial markets, I am also trying a lot of other things.

Once such avenue is through Clickbank the online seller of electronic products. The nice thing about Clickbank is that you do not need to have your own products, you can simply market other people’s products and take a cut on every sale that you make. Of course, you can have your own product too and sell through Clickbank or make it attractive for other people to sell it (and pay them a commission per sale).

There are many ways to make money via Clickbank and what I have been doing has been extremely simple. I am advertising through the Google Adwords program (these are the links which appear in the Google search engine) and putting the link to the Clickbank page of the product that I am selling.

This does mean that I have to pay money for advertising but the money that I make back is a lot higher. Currently, for every $10 I am putting into Google advertising, I am getting $30 back.. hence, $20 of profit.

Here is the picture of my cheque I received recently for $490.60!!

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If you would like to set up your own Clickbank account, click here

If you would like to set up your Google Adwords account, click here

I’ll start to write a little series on how to sell through Clickbank and some of the little tricks that I have employed to get it to work for me!

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